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985 – Switching Shopping Carts: Tom talks Modern Carts Part 1

Had to take a little hiatus because of the topic we're going to talk about this week, which is modern shopping carts. A lot of you know that after 24 years of representing one shopping cart with my private label KickStartCart, they decided to poop out and quit. So I've been scrambling hundreds of hours trying to get caught up to speed, evaluating other carts and all the things you should have in a modern shopping cart system. So that's what we're going to talk about in three parts this week.

Switching Shopping Cart Course – https://www.screwthecommute.com/kscswitch

Kartra Special Offer – https://www.screwthecommute.com/kartra

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984 – Look in many directions: Tom talks Check Your Intersections

Today's episode is titled Check Your Intersections. What the heck does that mean, Tom? Well, also I'm a hero. How do you like that?

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983 – Look at your site holistically: Tom talks Site Wide Quality

Today we're going to talk about site wide quality and what Google thinks about your website when it comes to getting high rankings.

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982 – Boost your WiFi speeds: Tom talks Mesh WiFi

Today we're going to talk about some Wi-Fi stuff. You know, so many of my students just don't understand what's going on with this. And their zoom things lock up and it takes forever to upload or download stuff. So we're going to talk about what to do about that today.

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981 – Reviews are a double edged sword: Tom talks Review Deletions

Today we're going to talk about review deletions. In other words, you kill yourself to get great reviews for your business or your products and services and they get deleted. Well, let's talk about why that happens today.

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980 – Do the basics: Tom talks Nix SEO

Today, I'm going to give you another reason to nix SEO or search engine optimization.

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979 – More phone tips to help you: Tom talks Phone Tips

Today is another phone tip episode, and we have tons of phone tip episodes that make you lightning fast using your cell phones and tablets. So if you want to look them up, you can go to screwthecommute.com/training and just do a search on the page for iPhone or phone. Just use phone because a lot of these tips will work on Androids.

Check In with iMessage – https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-use-check-imessage

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978 – This can help your business: Tom talks Wise Credit Card Use

Today we're going to talk about wise credit card using for your business.

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977 – Good Stuff In Good Stuff Out: Tom talks Great AI Prompts

Today, we're going to talk about great AI prompts. Now, I don't claim to be any kind of big expert, but I can tell you that the better stuff you put into AI, the better stuff you get out. So I'll give you a formula for that that I learned off of this other guy.

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976 – Don’t believe everything you read: Tom talks AI Hallucinations

Today we're going to talk about hallucinations. One of my favorite bumper stickers was I brake for hallucinations. But we're talking about today AI, or artificial intelligence, hallucinations and how they can get you in trouble and how you stay out of trouble.

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975 – Make money with virtual people: Tom talks AI Spicy Models

This is going to be a little bit offbeat from the my norm. It's still going to be money making related, but it's called AI Spicy Models. This isn't like technical modeling of something. This is spicy models, bikini, nude, things like that. So hang with me there because I'm not going to get real crazy on you here, but I'm going to tell you a method that's got people making money, some ethically, some not ethically. And I'll go over that too.

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974 – Don’t fall for fakes and scams: Tom talks AI Phishing

Today we're going to talk about AI phishing scams, especially for YouTube creators. But this really affects any kind of phishing thing with all these deep fakes going around and craziness.

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973 – Easily increase your sales: Tom talks Easy Bonuses

Today, we're going to talk about a copywriting technique that absolutely increases sales, no question about it. And that is bonuses. And the title of this episode is Easy Bonuses. These are things that are going to be all digital. Other than one will take a little bit of your time. But I think I got about 16 or 17 of them here for you.

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972 – Expand your visibility even more: Tom talks Visual Search Part 2

Today, we're going to do part two of Visual Search. 971 was part one and specifically was talking about Google Lens and how you can use that to find stuff that you want and what you need to do to your website to make sure people can find your stuff.

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971 – Expand your visibility: Tom talks Visual Search Part 1

Today, we're going to talk about visual search. This is part one. I've talked about image search in the past that this is kind of an image thing on steroids.

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970 – Don’t let work get you down: Tom talks Fighting Burn Out

Today, we're going to talk about fighting burnout, something that I've been doing for a long time, but I'm still very, very productive. So I'll give you a tip on how to to fight burnout in your business.

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969 – Don’t get caught unprotected: Tom talks Sync Jacking

Today, we're going to talk about a really important security thing that you got to pay attention to so that people can't gain control of your all your stuff. It's called sync jacking. Sync jacking is the term for it. You'll probably want to look it up and go deeper than I'm going to go today. But what I give you today will pretty much keep you out of trouble.

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968 – More productivity for your apps: Tom talks Even More Phone Tips

Today, we've got even more phone tips this whole week 966 967 and today's 968 has been on phone tips to make you lightning fast and do all the cool things your phone will do. Although saying the word all is kind of ridiculous because it'll do thousands and thousands of things, so I try to pick out things that are very useful to you.

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967 – Three more that are cool: Tom talks More Phone Tips

Today, I've got more phone tips for you. I think this will be a phone tip week because there's so many cool things the phone will do today. I've got some really cool stuff on calculators and hotspots and stuff like that.

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966 – Three for productivity: Tom talks Phone Tips

Today, we're going to give you some more phone tips and a lot of these things for Android is right behind or has a similar function. It's just I don't have an Android, so I don't know how to do it on Android, but you'll see some really cool ones on this one, including using Apple Intelligence and Visual intelligence.

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965 – Your reputation is EVERYTHING: Tom talks Be Careful Who You Deal With

Today is going to be a little bit of a rant about people that will steal your money. You've got to be careful who you deal with.

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964 – Jazz up your recordings: Tom talks Sound Effects

Today, we're going to talk about sound effects and how they can jazz up your recordings.

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963 – Convert your tapes to MP3: Tom talks Cassette Gadget

Today, I'm going to do a cassette gadget review. And you say cassette? What's a cassette? All right, well, those of you old enough to have a bunch of cassettes laying around from the old days, I'm going to tell you what to do with them and how to save them digitally. Really cheap. And you can save them all from going bad.

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962 – Careful what you call yourself: Tom talks Fish Branding

Today, we're going to talk about fish branding. What the heck is fish branding?

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961 – Four Lads from Liverpool: Tom interviews Mike Stewart

I am so psyched today. I'm with my old buddy Mike Stewart, and we go way back at least 25 years that I can think of back in around 2000. He's the one that got me started doing audio stuff and taught me how to do it, got the equipment for me, dumbed it down so a dummy like me could understand and here we are again today, 25 years later. If you're a Beatles fan, you're going to love this. But even if you aren't a Beatles fan or you've never even heard of them, maybe you're two years old and never heard of them. This entrepreneurial journey for a product that's technically a product, what we're going to talk about today that Mike created out of thin air.

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960 – Watching more of your videos: Tom talks Short to Long

This is our last video in the YouTube shorts series starting at episode 944. We're going to show you how to grab people's attention and then move them into watching more of your stuff.

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959 – Add these to get more views: Tom talks End Screens

Today, we're going to talk about YouTube end screens and how it can really help you out. This is part of our YouTube Quick Tips series starting on episode 944. And you really want to catch all of these, because all these little techniques add up to really lots more views and watch time and and more promotion for your YouTube channel. So check that out.

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958 – Be consistent with your videos: Tom talks Scheduling

Today, we're gonna talk about scheduling on YouTube videos and why it's so important for you how to do it, when to do it, when not to do it, all that stuff. This is part of my YouTube series on quick tips that can really improve your YouTube channel, get you more watch time, more views, all that good stuff. And this series started at episode 944.

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957 – Mix your shorts to get better shorts: Tom talks Shorts Remixing

Today, we're going to talk about shorts remixing. This is part of my YouTube Short Tips series, starting at episode 944 that tells you little things, little tweaks you can make, and they all add up to way more traffic to your YouTube channel. Way more views, way more watch time, all the good stuff that comes from doing these things.

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956 – Use these to keep your channel clean: Tom talks Blocked Words and Links

Today, we continue our series on YouTube short tips that you can implement immediately that will help your YouTube channel. Today we're going to talk about blocked words and links.

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955 – Add these to help your channel: Tom talks Channel Descriptions

Today, we're going to talk about YouTube channel descriptions. Now, these didn't really do much in the past, but now there's a big change that you need to know about. This is all part of my YouTube tips series, very short tips that you can implement immediately to improve your channel. And remember, any one person that sees your stuff can spend money with you and multiply that by 100, 150, 200, 1000 people a week. And you're going to change the nature of your business.

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954 – Keywords help people find you: Tom talks Channel Keywords

Today, we're going to talk about channel keywords as part of our YouTube series that's starting on episode 944.

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953 – Add these to your videos: Tom talks Watermarks

Today, we're going to talk about watermarks for YouTube videos. This is part of my YouTube series starting at episode 944.

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952 – Take advantage of this cool feature: Tom talks Feature Eligibility

Today, we're going to talk about feature eligibility. This has to do with our YouTube series starting with episode 944. And this is going to open up a whole bunch of cool things for you just by verifying yourself a little bit more with YouTube.

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951 – Jazz up your videos: Tom talks TV and Movie Clips

Today, we're going to talk about jazzing up your videos using TV and movie clips. And I don't want you to get in trouble for this, but it's certainly a great way to jazz up some videos.

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950 – Make it easy to subscribe: Tom talks Subscription Confirmation

Today, I'm going to show you how to get tons more subscribers and this is called the sub confirmation link. I'll tell you how to do it and it's not that hard.

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949 – How to get and keep more eyeballs: Tom talks Watch Time

Today, we're going to talk about Watch Time. And this is part of my YouTube series where we give you little short tips on what you can do to improve your YouTube channel, and some of them can really make a big, big difference.

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948 – A great way to get more views: Tom talks Playlists

Today, we're going to continue our YouTube series of quick things you can do to increase your success in YouTube. So this is 948 and we're going to talk about playlists.

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947 – Make sure to set this correctly: Tom talks Not For Kids YouTube Setting

This is part of our YouTube series with quick little changes that can really either keep you out of trouble with YouTube, or help you get more views and watch time.

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946 – Get your videos more views: Tom talks License And Distribution YouTube Setting

This is part of our YouTube series on lots of little short, little tiny corrections you can make to increase your views and watch time, and all the good stuff to get you the best you can out of YouTube.

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945 – Make your content easier to find: Tom talks YouTube Chapters

Today, we're going to talk about YouTube chapters. This is part of our YouTube series, a bunch of tips and tricks and settings that will make your YouTube channel better.

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944 – One of the new options to watch: Tom talks YouTube Automatic Concepts

Today, we're going to start a series of very short episodes on YouTube and things that you probably never heard of that are hurting your YouTube channel. So today we're going to talk about Automatic Concepts.

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943 – Do your homework first: Tom talks How CSI Hurts You

Today, I'm going to show you how CSI is hurting you. What's CSI? It's not what you think it is.

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942 – This could do well for your business: Tom talks Branding Pros and Cons

Today, we're going to talk about branding pros and cons.

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941 – New video feature you can use: Tom talks Facebook Auto Clipping

Today, we're going to talk about a brand new feature on Facebook called Facebook Auto Clipping. Now it's so brand new, even the instructions to do it on Facebook were hard to understand, and I'm sure it's going to evolve over time, but it's going to be a really good thing that helps you out a lot. It's called auto clipping, and it's going to allow you to create clips and reels and vertical videos from your horizontal videos. Plus, you can let other people clip your stuff and share it on Facebook. But again, it's so brand new, I don't have all the details but I want to let you know about it.

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940 – Latest productivity tips & tricks: Tom talks Phone Tips

Today, we're going to talk about phone tips. And you know what I've done? I don't know, 10 or 12 episodes on phone tips. And I'm going to give you the numbers here. During the course of this podcast. And it'll be in the show notes. And I'm telling you, if you just went and used a portion of these tips, you'd be so much faster on your phones and tablets doing stuff. And you know, I use iPhone, but a lot of these same things will work on Android. You just have to Google on how to do it on an Android. But the ideas are solid.

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939 – Brand your business the right way: Tom talks Logos

Today, we're going to talk about logos, and I'm going to say good things and bad things about them, depending on where you're at in your business life.

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938 – Careful before you jump: Tom talks Celebrity Endorsements

Today, we're going to talk about celebrity endorsements. This is part of my very short series on not talking about politics, but talking about politics as an example of some of this stuff.

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937 – Don’t ignore your market: Tom talks Pay Attention

Today, we're going to talk about paying attention to your market. If you don't do that, you can have the best products and services. But if it's for the wrong people, you're screwed.

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936 – Be a Profitable Coach: Tom talks Profitable Coach Summit

I'm here with Roberto Candelaria, and we're going to talk about the Profitable Coach Summit that's coming up this week. And if you happen to be listening to this year's later, go back and check the replays. Roberto has been known as a sponsorship expert, but I know he and Warren, his partner, have been doing a lot with community building.

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935 – Cost Effective and Powerful: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time With Shopping Carts

This is part of our series on why I don't waste time. Today is the last part of the series, why I don't waste time on shopping carts. If you want to hear the entire series and how this series from episode 929 to the present could save you, I mean thousands of hours into the future wasting time on stuff if you would just if somebody just taught you what to do.

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934 – A better way to do it: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time Podcasting

This is why I don't waste time on podcasting. What? What do you mean you don't waste time on podcasting? 934 episodes. You've been wasting a lot of time, Tom, on episodes. No, I haven't, so I'm going to teach you about that today on why I don't waste time and how. Of course, this thing has made a lot of money, probably a couple million dollars over the past couple of years. And I don't waste time on it, though. And that's what I want to teach you.

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933 – A Necessary Evil: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time On Social Media

This is part of the Why I Don't Waste Time series. This is 933 Why I Don't Waste Time on Social Media. 932 was web design. 931 was customer service, 930 was writing books, and 929 was artificial intelligence.

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932 – Save your money: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time On Web Design

This one is why I don't waste time on web design. This is part of my why I Don't Waste Time series. 929 was artificial intelligence. I don't waste time on that. 930 writing books. I don't waste time on that even though I've written 25. 931 was customer service. That's all about autoresponders, so I don't waste time on customer service, even though I'm a customer service freak. And upcoming is why I don't waste time on podcasting.

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931 – Don’t fall short on this: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time On Customer Service

Today is part of our series Why I Don't Waste Time on Stuff. Today's is why I don't waste time on customer service. Now, don't even get an inkling in your mind that I'm not a customer service freak. I am totally. There is nobody at my level that gives this good a service as I do. I'm accessible and I'm helpful, but I don't waste time on it. And that's what this episode is about.

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930 – Make more money instead: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste Time Writing Books

Today is part of the Why I Don't Waste Time series, and this is going to be why I don't waste time writing books. Does not mean I don't write books. 25 that I last count. So listen up and I'll tell you. I'll show you how to do it fast so you don't waste time.

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929 – Don’t fall for the latest fad: Tom talks Why I Don’t Waste My Time On AI

Today, is the beginning of the Why I Don't Waste Time series. I don't even know how many parts it's going to be to this series, because I don't want to waste time figuring it out before I do this episode. Okay, so this one's going to be why I don't waste time on artificial intelligence or AI.

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928 – Don’t fall for this: Tom talks Done For You

Today, we're going to talk about done for you programs more appropriately called Done to You programs. All right. So you can see I'm not in favor of these things. They try to rip you off.

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927 – Do this the RIGHT way: Tom talks Wasting Time and Money on SEO

Today, I'm going to try to encourage you to quit wasting your time on search engine optimization, because it could cost you a lot of money and waste you a lot of time where you get nowhere. Now, don't think I'm not in favor of certain parts of SEO, but let me tell you about it in this episode.

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926 – Low Risk High Return: Tom talks Three Prong Attack Part 3

Today is part three of the three part series we've been doing on the three prong attack to a seven figure income. It's something I developed back in roughly 1996, and it's with minor adjustments. It's still valid today. It's designed to help you stay on track to create the digital part of your business. So this is part three, Products.

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925 – Email is STILL King: Tom talks Three Prong Attack Part 2

This is part two of a three part series on the three prong attack to a seven figure income, which I created back around 1996 and is still valid today with some changes. Part one is website and shopping carts. That's what you would have heard on episode 924.

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924 – Simplify and grow your business: Tom talks Three Prong Attack on a Seven Figure Income Part 1

Today is part one of a three part series of a concept I developed around 1996, called the three prong attack on a seven figure income. These are the three things that, after all, the students I've had were having trouble with. So I boiled it down to three major categories of things you need to work on to have a successful online business, or even if you're not doing an online business so much, but a successful website.

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923 – Make the right choice: Tom talks Employees vs Contractors

Today, we're going to talk about employees versus contractors or independent contractors. And you know, you're going to need help in your business one way or the other. And either because of the volume of the work you have that you know how to do, but there's just too much of it. Or you may have specialized needs that need taken care of. So how do you get those people and is it better an employee or contractor? What's the pros and cons?

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922 – Many things you can do yourself: Tom talks Self Sufficiency

Today, we're going to talk about self-sufficiency, where you don't have to wait for people all day long and spend a fortune to have them screw you over. How about that?

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921 – Get to the Nitty Gritty: Tom talks Specific Sells General Doesn’t

Today, we're going to talk about specific sells and general doesn't. I've been seeing all kinds of stuff coming into my email for years as examples of this.

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920 – Every business needs this: Tom talks Benefits of Digital Products

Today, we're going to talk about 11 benefits of digital products. And whenever I say 11, I don't really know for sure. It sounded like a good number. You have more than that for sure.

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919 – Sneak in more sales: Tom talks Sneakiest Way To Sell Stuff

Today, I'm going to talk about the sneakiest way to sell stuff, especially big stuff. Before you get too freaked out there, you know, I'm all about ethics and so forth. So none of this is fraudulent or mean spirited or cheating or ripoffs. But it is sneaky. It's really powerful.

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918 – More tips to make you fast: Tom talks Cell Phone Automation Tips

Today, I'm going to come back with some stuff I've been doing over the years on phone tips and tablet tips to really increase your productivity. And yes, I use an iPhone, but a lot of these things, if you just look up the same tip for Android on how to do it, they're going to have it too. So don't worry about that. And I'm going to give you a big list of back episodes. If you listen to all these episodes and implemented this stuff, you would be so lightning fast on your cell phones and tablets out there, I'm telling you. No doubt about it.

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917 – Take care of your customers: Tom talks How To Lose A $179 Sale

Today, we're going to talk about how to lose $179 sale. Basically, we're talking about service reviews today and why I didn't spend 179 bucks when I could have.

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916 – Increase your reach: Tom talks Surveys

Today, we're going to talk about surveys and how you can get media attention from them and improve your business and make money with them. How about that?

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915 – Add this to your toolbox: Tom talks Audio Editing

Today, we're going to talk about audio editing and why I think it is so simple for you to learn, and can save you so much time, effort, and make you sound better than you ever sounded before. And also give you a sample of how I edit this podcast.

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914 – A new way to make videos: Tom talks Video Eye Contact

Today, we're going to talk about a massive, massive breakthrough in video eye contact. And you might think, well, I just look into the camera. Well, there's a lot more going on than that I can tell you about in this episode.

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913 – Free is not always free: Tom talks Perils of Unlimited Emails

Today, we're going to talk about the perils of unlimited emails. There's a lot at stake here, including your wallet, your professional and personal emails, and your reputation.

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912 – Publicity stunts can work: Tom talks Topless Carwash

Today, we're going to talk about a topless car wash at a church. And believe me, there's a lesson here.

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911 – Using AI responsibly: Tom talks Reputation Management In An AI World

How do you keep your good reputation intact in the face of artificial intelligence? And I'm not sure I'm going to be able to give you a definitive answer. I'm going to give you things to work with and to help your reputation and to try to knock down things that are against your reputation.

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